Examples of subcortical in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web In the study, the brain scans showed subjects’ subcortical gray matter volume decreased between January and August and increased between August and December. — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 6 Apr. 2021 When a person gets a compliment, the more primitive, subcortical auditory regions first reacts to the intonation—the emotional force of spoken words. — Virginia Morell, National Geographic, 6 Aug. 2020 In both dogs and humans, subcortical parts of the brain process intonations, while higher, cortical parts of the brain process word meanings. — Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 5 Aug. 2020 Entrainment usually happens without conscious thought, occurring in the subcortical regions of the brain, Stegemoller says. — Luke Ottenhof, Popular Mechanics, 26 July 2020 These suggest that the control region may be located in the subcortical region of the left brain hemisphere. — Adrian Woolfson, WSJ, 5 Mar. 2020 The amygdala, a subcortical brain structure that responds to threat, can become hijacked: Children who experienced parental deprivation show amygdala hyperactivity, meaning the brain is more likely to signal danger even when there is none. — Dylan Gee, Vox, 20 June 2018 Or different mechanisms might generate an attack in subcortical brain structures that help to process light, sound and other sensory stimuli and influence pain-sensing neurons in the brain. — R. Allan Purdy, Scientific American, 1 May 2017 Connections between higher-order systems and subcortical regions were also altered. — Diana Gitig, Ars Technica, 12 Apr. 2018

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